1996-1997 Undergraduate Catalog
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COMMUNICATION STUDIES
Professor Blaine Goss, department head
Associate Professor
Zakahi;
Assistant Professors
Buker, Crabtree, de Berly, Ford, Hacker, Lindsey, Weissberg
(505) 646-2801
DEGREE: Bachelor of Arts
MAJOR: Communication Studies
The communication studies program is designed to enhance students' interpersonal skills, presentational skills, and critical thinking skills. Thus the successful graduate should be able to work effectively with people, assimilate, organize and analyze information, solve problems, make effective presentations, and show potential for leadership. The program prepares students for careers in several professions, such as teaching, training and development, public relations, law, advertising and sales, government service, mediation, customer relations, human resources, international service, fund raising, and the ministry.
In addition to completing the general education requirements of the university and the college, students majoring in communication studies are required to complete 18 credits of core COMM courses and 18 credits of COMM electives for a total of 36 credits.
Any exception to these policies requires department head approval.
Communication Studies Core Courses (18 credits)
The core curriculum has two parts. The first nine credits must be completed before proceeding to the next set of core courses. Thus, the following three courses serve as prerequisites to the rest of the curriculum:
| COMM 265G, Principles of Human Communication |
3 |
| COMM 285, Survey of the Discipline |
3 |
| COMM 305, Communication Research Methods |
3 |
These three courses must be completed with a grade of C or better. The courses can be taken concurrently with each other, but not with other three- to four-hundred-level COMM courses.
The next set of core courses are required of all majors and must be completed before graduation. Since they are intended to ensure diversity in one's major, they can be taken concurrently with other noncore COMM courses.
| COMM 370, Organizational Communication |
3 |
| COMM 376, Communication and Culture |
3 |
| COMM 384, Interpersonal Communication |
3 |
Communication Studies Elective Courses (18 credits)
To reach a total of 36 credits, students must complete successfully an additional 18 COMM credits of their choosing.
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